Combined cash-registering and advertisement-displaying apparatus



(No Model.)

M. A. DREW.

COMBINED CASH REGISTERING AND ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAYING APPARATUS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MANNING A. DRE\V, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMBINED CASH-REGISTERING AND ADVERTlSEMENT-DISPLAYING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 434,255, dated August12, 1890.

Application filed December 12, 1887. Serial No. 257,724. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MANNING A. DREW, of the city of Boston, in thecounty of Suffolk and.State of Massachusetts, have invented a certainnew and useful Advertising Gash-Register, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide an advertising caslrregisterin which the movements of the registering mechanism serve to operate anadvertisement-displayer.

In the drawings forming part of this specification the combination ofthis invention is illustrated in one form of arrangement and inconnection with a cash-registering apparatus known as the National, andwhich is manufactured under patents controlled by the National CashRegister Com pan y, of Dayton, Ohio, and as the same appearsubstantially on the records of the United States Patent Office, towhich reference is hereby had for more particular understanding thereof.Such parts only of the said apparatus are shown as are deemed necessaryfor illustrating the carrying out of the combination of this invention,and in this relation the part thereof selected and through which tocomn1 unicate motion to the means of displaying the advertisements is apart through the movement of which the cash drawer is released to beopened. In this class of apparatus a series of keys are used, eachsuitably marked, and by the operation of each key a tabletcorrespondingly marked is displayed, and the registry of cashcorresponding thereto is secured as well as the drawer set free to beopened.

Figure 1 is an elevation on a reduced scale of the rear of the cabinetof the cash-registerin g apparatus referred to and partially broken out.Fig. 2 is in part a vertical section and end View of the cabinet. Figs.3 and 4C are enlarged views of a part of the mechanism for operating theadvertisement devices from the operation of the cash-registeringmechanism. Fig. 5 is avertical section of the casin g at its rear,showing the rear end of the cashdrawer and its operating mechanism.

In the drawings, A represents the cabinet of a cash-register of theclass known as the National, and B is an upright bar at the rearthereof, having connection at its upper end with a lever C, and underthe movement of said lever made to rise and fall, operating in itsfalling movement to release the holding mechanism of the cash-drawer D,which, released, is thrown open by the action of the spring E, all aswell known in said National cash-registers, and shown and described inthe Letters Patent under which they are manufactured, as before referredto. This mechanism constitutes no part of this invention, and theinvention is to be in no manner limited thereto, and it is referred toonly as a means of connection adopted for the purpose-of an illustrationof the invention.

F is a fixed and horizontally-projected arm of the rising and fallingupright B. This arm F has a horizontal lever-pawl G fulcrumed upon it soas to swing in a vertical plane and to have a rest and an abutmentagainst the upper side of said arm F when force or resistance is appliedto the under side of the toe end of the pawl and in an upward directionthereon. The toe of this pawl, as the pawl is carried by the upright,moves through and in a vertical plane of travel of the length of oneside of a vertical and endless traveling chain H, passing at itsopposite ends around horizontal rollers J, turning in suitable bearingsof the cabinet and at the rear side thereof. K L are horizontalguide-rollers for said chain, to maintain'and insure its travel in thedesired and stated relation as to the rising and falling movement ofsaid upright B. The pawl-lever G, in its downward movement, carried bythe upright B, engages said endless chain and moves it in conjunctiontherewith, and in its upward movement it slips over the chain andwithout effect thereon to move it, dropping of its own weight to itsrest. By this means a step-by-step movement is imparted to the endlesschain, in turn imparted to the rollers J, around which it passes, andthence to a belt of tablets M, linked one to the other in an endlessform and passing around said rollers J, operated by the endless chain,as stated. Each tablet is to contain an advertisement or advertisements,all presented in the same direction under the step-by-step movement ofthe endless chain, as stated, and for being displayed in turn and oneafter another at the horizontal or slotted windows N in the backextension of the cabinet. By these means, all as above described, theadvertisements, one after another, are displayed on a step-bystepmovement of the mechanism secured from the fall of the upr ght B,actuated by the cash-registering mechanism to record, the Wholerendering the cash-registering apparatus serviceable and useful as ameans for displaying advertisements without materially adding to themechanism, and with the use simply of such mechanism as is necessary todirectly move the advertisements, combined with a connection thereofwith the mechanism of the cash-register.

The advertisement-tahlcts may be more or less in number. There may beone or more separate belts thereof having display-windows eitherseparate for or common to those of each belt. Again, the tablets may bein a continuous strip in lieu of separate pieces linked together; also,the belts of tablets may be continued across and under and downwardbelow the bottom of the cabinet, thus giving a greater number thereof,and, further, the tablets may be continued above the displaying windowsfor the cash-tablets and so con tinued, their inclosing casin g adaptedfor the display of the advertisements either at the front of theapparatus or at the back or at both front and back of the cabinet;and,again,other parts of the cash-registering mechanism may be used asthe means of connection for actuating the tablets; and, again, themechanism particularly described for operating the tablets may bearranged for its action thereon on its upward movement in lieu of itsdownward movement, as particularly specified, all modifications in'detail obvious on examination. This combination is .serviceable, useful,and beneficial, as it provides a means for the display of advertisementswhich can be made attractive, and one which would be readily observedand noticed by all parties within sight of the machine, and moreespecially those who by a purchase have been the direct cause of anoperation of the cash-register, thus tending to render it more certainthat the cash-tablet displayed shall be observed by the purchaser.

The National cash-register of itself constitntes no part of thisinvention, and the invention, as before stated, is not to be limitedthereto for reasons given. Such a register,

however, has been found to be capable of a most ready adaptation of thisinvention, and for that as well as other reasons it has been selected.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of a cash-register cabinet, a cash-registeringmechanism disposed therein, an advertisement-displayer also disposed insaid cabinet, and an actuator disposed between said cash-registeringmechanism and displayerand connected with the cash-registering mechanismfor actuating the displayer in unison with the movements of theregistering mechanism.

2. The combination of a cash-register cabinet, a cash-registeringmechanism therein, an advertisement-displayer composed of two rollersdisposed in said cabinet, an endless band supported on said rollers andadvertising-cards on said band, and an actuator disposed between thecash-registering mechanism and advertisement-displayer for operating thelatter in unison with the movements of the former, said actuatorconsisting of an endless chain engaging said rollers, a reciprocatingbar connected with the registering mechanism, and a pawl supported bysaid bar and engaging said chain.

3. The combination of a cash-register cabinet provided with windows, acash-registering mechanism disposed in said cabinet, anadvertisemerit-displayer composed of two rollers also disposed in saidcabinet, an endless band supported on said rollers opposite saidwindows, and advertising-cards on said band, and an actuator disposedbetween the cash-registering mechanism and advertisement-displayer foroperating the latter in unison with the movements of the former, saidactuator consisting of an endless chain engaging said rollers, areciprocating bar connected with the registering mechanism, and a pawlsupported by said bar and engaging said chain.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

MANNING A. DREW.

Witnesses:

ALBERT W. BROWN, WM. P. PERRY.

